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Nickelodeon Reportedly May Cram All of its 90s Cartoons Into One Movie

If you loved the Avengers movies, but thought, “I really wish these Avengers were worse at avenging and had heads shaped more like footballs,” Paramount Pictures may have the project for you. The Tracking Board reports that the studio is in the early stages of developing a “massive, live-action/animated crossover film” featuring all of your favorite 90s Nickelodeon cartoon characters—everyone from the Rugrats, to the Angry Beavers, to the melancholy stoop-kids of Hey Arnold!, to Rocko and his ennui-tinged Modern Life, to the dark-hearted Ren and Stimpy, whose anarchic take on the world sent millions of 90s kids into early therapy.

The forthcoming film, titled Nicktoons, is being pitched as a “Justice League or Avengers-esque team-up,” meaning the misshapen animated characters will likely join forces to fight some kind of evil force threatening their very existence (Netflix?). The studio also cited The Lego Movie, Space Jam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Wreck It Ralph as influences for Nicktoons, which will similarly employ “a hefty amount of self-referential humor and charm.”

Nickelodeon’s gone down the filmic-adaptation route before, what with the wildly successful SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water and Rugrats Go Wild, which was, ironically, less wildly successful. But if you’re worried that, in an attempt to modernize their 90s catalogue, Nickelodeon may retroactively destroy your childhood (by, say, turning Tommy Pickles into an aspiring EDM DJ), fear not. Tracking Board assures that “the creators have no intentions to bastardize or update the characters unfavorably, only to create a fun adventure reuniting audiences with the treasured cartoons in an exciting new approach [sic].”

Doug Funnie, who went suspiciously unmentioned in the announcement, was unavailable for comment.